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promising animals and is willing at all times to pay the top 

 price for anything that looks as though it would be a world- 

 beater. James Boyle dates his connection with the Western 

 turf to before the Chicago fire, when such leading lights as 

 Harry Holmes, Al Gage, Charley Schwartz and a host of 

 others were out in force, and before they had settled down 

 to everyday business. At this time, George Mansur was 

 proprietor of Dexter Park and Billy Boyle (Jim' s brother) 

 was the leading secretary of the country. Since then he, 

 too, has settled down, and has proven himself to be as good 

 a business man as he was a secretary, which is proven by 

 the fact of his having made a fortune for himself with his 

 chop house in Chicago, an establishment that has attained 

 more fame than any other place of the kind in the country, 

 and to which horsemen gravitate as naturally when in Chi- 

 cago as they do to the quarter stretch when at a race track. 



George Hayes, made his star performances as a driver in 

 connection with Colonel Pepper' s stables at Frankfort Ky. 

 In his management and driving of the celebrated mare 

 Catchfly Hayes stamped himself a trainer of rare judg- 

 ment and ability, Catchfly being a mare that had baffled the 

 efforts of a number of people to train and drive. But Hayes 

 soon got the hang of the mare, and in his hands she proved 

 herself one of the few first-class race-horses of the year, beat- 

 ing among other good ones Harry Wilkes in a race of five 

 heats. Hayes is rather a mild-mannered young man, but 

 with plenty of determination, as was proven in this case. 



The Coates brothers come under the hea d of gentlemen 

 horsemen, and are, what I would call, two of a kind. In 

 ways, looks, disposition and traits, they are as near alike as 

 a pair of aces. They have owned and raced some of the star 

 performers. Joe always does the driving and Arthur at- 

 tends to the finances of the concern, and in this manner 

 they have been able to give talent some pretty severe blows. 

 They also take an interest in breeding, and own a fine prop- 

 erty at Goshen, 'N. Y., where they spend their time when 

 not out on they road. They are both well-educated young 



